Claude Code is Proto-AGI | Daniel Miessler

I’ve had a number of thoughts around Claude Code in the last couple of days. I’ve especially been trying to put into words a feeling of how big this is, and why I think so.

Here’s what I’ve come up with:

1. Claude Code is as big a jump as ChatGPT was in 2022
2. ChatGPT was the ChatGPT for knowledge, and Claude Code is the ChatGPT for action
3. Claude Code is as good as it is because of scaffolding, not model IQ
4. I think Claude Code is proto-AGI, meaning it just needs more scaffolding, tools, and long-term memory and it’ll be able to replace an average knowledge worker

I was having trouble putting this into words, and I think the above captures it.

Basically, it’s as big as ChatGPT—but for action instead of knowledge.